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“Piece of Cake” by Kathryn Stripling Byer (and other adventures with Southern women writers)

by shortstreetcakes | Apr 23, 2012 | Cake Ladies, cupcakes for cures, Events, Friends, Southern Foodways Alliance, Uncategorized

Piece of Cake by Kathryn Stripling Byer (written for Poet Laureate installation, 2005, at the state capitol) When the young woman calling from Charlotte to interview me for her radio program asked, “What is a Laureate, anyway?” I heard my voice hem and haw...

Athens, GA: Potlikker and Coffee (and whiskey, too)

by shortstreetcakes | Aug 25, 2009 | 1000faces coffee, cake shop, Southern Foodways Alliance

On Saturday, I headed out of town and down south to my beloved former home of Athens, GA, to attend the Southern Foodways Alliance’s Potlikker Film Festival. Held at Cine, it was a showcase of four short films about Southern Food: “The Rise of Southern...

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